Harness-hame.



F. VALLIBRE.

HARNESS HAME.

APPLNATION FILED 11011.19, 1999.

1 1 1 6, 1 75. Patented Nov. 3, 1914.

Shame/wrdn FELIX VALLIRE, OF GROVETON, NEW HAMPSHIRE.

HARNESS-HAIVIE.

T0 all wlw/m, it may concern y Be it known that LFELIX VALLIRE, a citizen of the Province of Quebec, Canada, residing at Groveton, in the county of Coos and State of New Hampshire, have invented new and useful Improvements in Harness llames, of which the following is a specification.

rlhis invention relates to harness haines, and it has for its object to provide a simple and improved attachment for the same which may be applied without. seriously mutilating or weakening the llames for the purpose of constituting a trace-attaching device.

A further object of the invention is to provide a simple and improved device which may be clamped and firmly held upon the haines without mutilating the latter; said attachment being held in position against sliding by means of one or more `light bolts extended therethrough.

Still further objects of the invention are to simplify and improve the general construction and operation of a device of the character outlined above.

`With these and other ends in View which will readily appear as the nature of the invention is better understood, the same consists in the improved construction and novel arrangement and combination of parts which will be hereinafter fully described and particularly pointed out in the claim.

ln the accompanying.,drawing has been illustrated a simple and preferred form of the invention, it being, however, understood that no limitation is necessarily made to the precise structural details therein exhibited, but that changes, alterations and modifications within the scope of the invention may be resorted to when desired.

In the drawing,-Figure 1 is a front view of a hame equipped Withthe improved attachment. Fig. 2 is a rear view of the same. Fig. 3 is a transverse sectional view on a larger scale taken on the plane indicated by the line 3-3 in Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a perspective detail view also enlarged of the improved device.

Corresponding` parts in the several figures are denoted bylike characters of reference.

The improved device, which constitutes the subject matter' of this invention, consists of a plate 5 of suitable dimensions and ofk approximately semrcircular cross section,`

said plate being suitably shaped t0 be tted Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed November 19, 1909.

PatentedNov. 3, 1914;

Serial No. 528,927I

againstand to abut tightly upon the curved front side of an ordinary haine A. The

plate 5 provided adjacent to one of its edges with laterally extending thickened reinforcing lugs (i and 7 which are formed integral therewith, said lugs being of substantially rectangular configuration and provided with aliued apertures 8 for the passage of a trace-attaching bolt 9; the lower lug 7 is additionally provided with a downward extension l0 havingI a longitudinal aperture 1l in which a harness ring 12 may be mounted. The downward extension 10 terminates below the lowermost longitu dinal edge of the plate 5 whereby the harness ring 12 will have free swinging movement and will not be obstructed from having such movement by the plate 5.

The plate 5, which in practice is preferably formed by the casting of malleable irOn, or other suitable malleable metal is provided along one of the transverse edges thereof with a series of outwardly extending teeth or lugs 15, while its opposite transverse edge lis provided with a pair of outwardly extending' sharp pointed teeth 15 and owing to the nature of the material of which the device is constructed, may be readily bent by striking said teeth or lugs with an ordinary hammer. The lugs 6 and 7 are formed at a point adjacent to the re spective teeth 15 and tending to reinforce the side of the plate which is liable to undue stress, or in other words reinforcing the plate at a point adjacent to the tracing bolt 9. The plate is also provided inter1nediate its edges with one or more apertures 1G for the passage of fastening members, such as bolts 17, whereby the plate may be secured upon thehame against longitudinal displacement.

ln the operation of this device, the plates 5 are mounted upon haines and are firmly secured upon the latter by means of the teeth or lugs 15 which are bent or upset upon the rear sides of said ends in which they may, if desired, be lightly embedded, as will be best seen in Fig. 3 of the drawings. Nhile the plates are in this manner secured upon the haines for all practical purposes, it is deemed advisable t0 add the fastening bolts 17 for the purpose of absolutely preventing longitudinal displacement of said plates.

From the foregoing description taken in connection with the accompanying drawing,

the operation and advantages of this inven` tion will be readily understood. The improved device or attachment is extremely simple and inexpensive, and it is capable of being applied to hames without injuriously mutilating the latter so as to seriously de` tract from their strength and wear-resisting qualities. The device forming' the improved attachment has been found thoroughly elticient for the purposes for which it is provided.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new, is zi As an article of manufacture, a haine attachment consisting` of a malleable plate of substantially semi-circular cross section and having one or" its transverse edges formed with a series of sharp pointed teeth and its other transverse edge 'formed with a pair of spaced sharp pointed teeth, the latter mentioned` teeth being formed at a point flush with the respective upper and lower longitudinal edges of said plate, said plate being provided en its outer face at a point adjacent each of the last mentioned teeth with angularly,arranged thickened apertured lugs, saidlugs being of substantially rectangular conliguration and disposed in superposed relation one to the other and adapted to reinforce one of the transverse Copies ofthis patent may be obtained for five cents` each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. C. 

